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Welcome to the Reading List. Here are all the updates from any blogs you follow and sites you've joined using Google FriendConnect. - posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 1 minute ago*"The resistance has raised fears of a protracted insurgency of the sort that has played out in Iraq and Afghanistan"* *But WE'RE WINNING!* "Libyan fighters hit Khadafy holdouts on several fronts; Turkis...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 minutes agoSeptember is rarely a cheerful time. The warm days of summer, as always all too brief, are disappearing into history. Holiday memories are beginning to fade; the children are back at school; the bills ha...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 minutes agoFat cat Brussels bureaucrats are threatening to strike over plans to make them work eight hours a day – because they say it will wreck their ‘family life’. EU bosses are asking civil servants – among the ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 minutes agoA defunct six-ton satellite is hurtling towards earth and is expected to crash within the next 24 hours, but experts have no idea where it will land. The Nasa *Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite* (Uars)...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 minutes agoRescuers on Thursday finally reached some of the villages in India's remote northeast that were cut off by a powerful earthquake in the Himalayan region last weekend, as the death toll in the disaster clim...
- posted by Lord Stirling at Europe - 33 minutes agoHoly Shroud of Turin Powerful prayer to St. Michael the Archangel - video ~ link AVE MARIA - by Helene Fischer - video ~ link AVE MARIA by Mirusia Louwerse - video ~ link Lord Stirling's news blog ...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 35 minutes ago*"The terminal point for our soiled laundry will be Bali," I announced masterfully.* *"'In the hands of Disraeli, irony can be a formidable weapon.' I rejoined. 'In a lout it becomes merely offensive.'"* ...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 36 minutes ago*The first one is a double cross*: "Turkey says it will escort Gaza aid flotillas" September 10, 2011|New York Times JERUSALEM - Israel was wrestling yesterday with growing tensions with Turkey after the...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 40 minutes agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck Guerrero, Mexico at a depth of 42.1 km (26.2 miles), the quake hit at 02:59:23 UTC Friday 23rd September 2011. The epicenter was 40 km (24 miles) North of Acapulco, Gue...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 40 minutes agoA magnitude 4.54 earthquake has struck offshore Chiapas, Mexico at a depth of 57.9 km (36 miles), the quake hit at 22:50:02 UTC Thursday 22nd September 2011. The epicenter was 124 km (77 miles) SSW of Tona...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 40 minutes agoA magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck off the East Coast of Kamchatka, Russia at a depth of 64.4 km (40 miles), the quake hit at 22:43:12 UTC Thursday 22nd September 2011. The epicenter was 55 km (34 miles...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 40 minutes agoA magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 13.8 km (8.6 miles), the quake hit at 19:59:18 UTC Thursday 22nd September 2011. The epicenter was 62 km (38 miles) ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 40 minutes agoA magnitude 4.2 earthquake has struck Pakistan at a depth of 9.9 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 22:28:14 UTC Thursday 22nd September 2011. The epicenter was 117 km (73 miles) WSW of Dera Ismail Khan, Paki...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 43 minutes ago*CALL FOR SUPPORT: SPIRITUAL GATHERING AND RUN FOR MUADAG' DOAG AND THE VILLAGES OF DISTRICT 6* Greetings from District Six of the Gila River Indian Community, The villages of Lone Butte, Santa Cruz, Gila...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 54 minutes ago*Click images to enlarge.* Censored news reporter Brenda Norrell http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoA magnitude 6.4 earthquake has struck Tonga at a depth of 9.8 km (6.1 miles), the quake hit at 23:07:03 UTC Thursday 22nd September 2011. The epicenter was 388 km (241 miles) NNW of Neiafu, Tonga No Tsunami...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 2 hours ago*Thanks to the Saleh family and it's U.S. backers*: "YEMEN PROTESTS CONTINUE -- Yemeni women flashed the victory sign during a demonstration in Sana demanding the ouster of President Ali Abdullah Saleh ye...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 2 hours ago[image: Texas State Park police officer Thomas Bigham walks across the cracked lake bed of O.C. Fisher Lake Wednesday, Aug. 3, 2011, in San Angelo, Texas. A bacteria called Chromatiaceae has turned the 1...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 2 hours ago*Watch where you step, readers.* "Hikers’ release still up in air; Iran’s judiciary will make decision" by Ali Akbar Dareini Associated Press / September 18, 2011 TEHRAN - The * Americans say they may hav...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 3 hours ago[image: Wheat crop failure, especially for poor rural Afghans, could be disastrous. © Mohammad Popal / IRIN] KABUL, 21 September 2011 (IRIN) – The current dry spell sweeping across Afghanistan’s norther...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 3 hours agoJFK, 9/11, Troy Davis, And The Murder of American Justice Saman Mohammadi The Excavator September 22, 2011 "Time is the one incorruptible judge. One minute is long enough to accuse a man. To prove his inno...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 3 hours ago*Why are so many of the people who mouth off about "family values" the last people any sane person should want to listen to? As "faithful Christian" and "fiscal conservative" Candy Olson demonstrates, maki...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 3 hours ago"Israel’s ambassador, staff flee Egypt as protesters storm embassy in Cairo" by Associated Press / September 10, 2011 CAIRO - Protesters broke into the Israeli Embassy in Cairo yesterday and dumped docume...
- posted by Lord Stirling at Europe - 3 hours agoHoly Shroud of Turin Powerful prayer to St. Michael the Archangel - video ~ link AVE MARIA - by Helene Fischer - video ~ link AVE MARIA by Mirusia Louwerse - video ~ link Lord Stirling's news blog ...
- posted by Alison at Creekside - 3 hours ago"Trained economist" Stephen Harper has given Deloitte, the world's largest accounting and consulting firm with $28.8 billion in profits for 2011 , a $19.8-million contract to advise federal cabinet and sen...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 3 hours ago"Egypt’s military rulers summoned to testify; Could lend credence to Mubarak trial" September 08, 2011|By Michael Birnbaum, Washington Post CAIRO - Judges ordered Egypt’s top military rulers yesterday to t...
- posted by PC at Not PC - 3 hours ago*Guest post by Murray Dawes from **Money Morning Australia* Well it looks like Bernanke has finally given up. Operation ‘Twist in the Wind’ couldn’t jump-start a Honda Civic. Delivering lower long-term ...
- posted by Jennifer Ouellette at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 hours agoThe European Southern Observatory has released a stunning new image of the colorfully named "Running Chicken Nebula." But what are those dark globules all about?
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- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoThe Federal Reserve on Wednesday warned of significant risks to the already weak U.S. economy and launched a new plan to lower long-term borrowing costs and bolster the battered housing market. The U.S. c...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoTwo Fullerton police officers have been criminally charged in the violent confrontation that left a homeless man dead, Orange County Dist. Atty. Tony Rackauckas announced Wednesday. Officer Manuel Ramos h...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoGreece adopted yet more austerity measures on Wednesday to secure a bailout instalment crucial to avoid running out of money next month, as the IMF warned that Europe's sovereign debt crisis risks tearing ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoTwo French Muslim women who continue to wear the full-face veil in defiance of a new law banning it in France have been issued fines by a court. Hind Ahmas and Najate Nait Ali were arrested wearing the niq...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoA former Army recruiter who for the third time this year was hours away from his scheduled execution for the rape-slaying of a woman in Fort Worth nearly 10 years ago was granted yet another reprieve by th...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoGipsies and travellers could find it easier to set up legal camps under the Government’s proposed changes to planning rules, campaigners warn. Until now, gipsy and traveller groups tend to buy land, move i...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoThe Greek government is to impose tougher austerity measures in a move to persuade international lenders to give it more bailout funds. A cabinet meeting on Wednesday agreed to further cuts in pensions, to...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoPresident Obama urged world leaders Wednesday morning to stay out of the conflict over Palestinian statehood as American diplomats pushed to delay a vote on the question during this week's general assembly...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoAnd you thought lightning strikes were rare. A defunct NASA satellite is set to plunge to Earth, with a 1-in-3,200 chance that someone could get hurt, according to the space agency. That has many wonderin...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoHow cutting edge can you get? If you've got the bucks, there's a world of awe-inspiring gadgets and goodies out there for you. From hundred thousand dollar watches to speakers that sound so good they'll m...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoFor the past 10,000 years or so, farmers have been waking at the crack of dawn to tend their fields. Such a bleary-eyed chore could become a thing of the past thanks to robots geared up for the farm. Am...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoMost of the renewable energy sources that are under consideration involve an obvious source of energy — light, heat, or motion. But this is the second time this year there has been a paper that has focused...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoWashington is quietly setting up at least two new East African drone bases, plus one on the Arabian Peninsula, to support the expanding U.S. shadow war against Islamic militants in Somalia and Yemen. An ap...
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- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoView more videos at: http://nbcnewyork.com. Police are searching for a woman accused of slashing two subway passengers in the face two separate times. The incidents both happened on the 4 train in the...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoFederal agencies were working with Southwest Airlines on Thursday to determine who has been vandalizing their aircraft with mysterious markings. KNX 1070 investigative reporter Charles Feldman has learne...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoIf you're the owner of a fairly new General Motors product, you may want to take a close look at the most recent OnStar terms and conditions. As it turns out, the company has altered the parameters under w...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoView more videos at: http://nbcphiladelphia.com. Two Berks County parents are facing felony child abuse charges after their 4-year-old son was admitted to Reading Hospital over the summer weighing jus...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoA 91-year-old Pennsylvania man is cited for throwing urine on the sidewalk to keep neighborhood kids off his property. Our sister station WHP CBS 21 talked to this man, who admits to doing this. But he ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoMost city workers spend decades in public service to build up modest pensions. But for former labor leader Dennis Gannon, the keys to securing a public pension were one day on the city payroll and some hel...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoFirst built in 1887 and expanded in 1913 as Kaufmann’s, the downtown building now known as Macy’s hasn’t changed much until now. “What we’re doing is reorganizing the merchandise and departments in that ...
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- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 5 hours agoSouth Carolina State Motto: *Prepared in Mind and Resources* Well, I hope the citizens of South Carolina are prepared to get rid of ALEC. Below you will find a list of people who have an association wit...
- posted by Marianne English at Discovery News - Top Stories - 5 hours agoA new study says separating the sexes may not influence academic performance, but might encourage some bad habits.
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- posted by Rossella Lorenzi at Discovery News - Top Stories - 6 hours agoThe necklace, worn by a survivor of the sunken ship, was stolen from an amusement park near the Danish capital.
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 6 hours agoA message from Russell Means: Hello everyone, I want to thank you for your heartfelt love and for your extreme concern about my health. I never expected within my lifetime, I would experience such a worl...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 6 hours agoScientists have measured particles that travel faster than the speed of light, questioning the theory of relativity.
- posted by Debra at Housewife Eclectic - 6 hours agoI don't know about your kid, but my kid isn't a fan of pictures. She thinks they are a great idea until I expect her to sit still and smile and then she comes unglued. I am always looking for cute photo ...
- Lord Stirling's News Blog EuropeEurope - 7 hours agoHoly Shroud of Turin Powerful prayer to St. Michael the Archangel - video ~ link AVA MARIA - by Helene Fischer - video ~ link Lord Stirling's news blog EUROPE ** Please forward this site to se...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 7 hours agoUnless you accidentally wandered over here looking for mediocre TV show DWTS or mediocre Democratic Party operative DWSTweets, instead of *DWT*, you've no doubt seen Ken and I railing about the perfidy of...
- posted by Laban at Biased BBC - 7 hours agoPeter Oborne in magisterial voice : Very rarely in political history has any faction or movement enjoyed such a complete and crushing victory as the Conservative Eurosceptics. The field is theirs. They we...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 7 hours agoAdd caption *US Weapon of Choice: Disregard for border lives* By Brenda Norrell Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com *Images from the ATF's "Project Gunrunner Weapons of Choice," circulated in 2...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 8 hours agoThe first man on the moon has spoken out against NASA saying the U.S. space agency is in an 'embarrassing' state.
- posted by Robert Lamb at Discovery News - Top Stories - 8 hours agoNeil deGrasse Tyson is probably the last person to suggest NASA falsify the threat of alien invasion to play on humanity's fears. But just for the sake of argument, let's you and I go there.
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 8 hours ago*And in the complete paucity of corporate media coverage. * "UNREST ON WALL STREET -- Protesters targeting financial firms marched down Broadway toward Wall Street during a demonstration in New York City's...
- posted by DB at Biased BBC - 8 hours agoThe BBC has begun an online series of articles called Campaign Ad Breakdownin which wise Beeboid opinion will be brought to bear upon the campaign ads of candidates for the US presidency in 2012. The first...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoNews from the world economy in the past 48 hours has dealt a severe blow to hopes that a second global recession can be avoided. It has been so bad that European markets fell by around 5pc on Thursday. Th...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 8 hours ago*Still buying and reading it. It's all for you, dear readers.* "Ga. panel is urged to stop execution in ’89 killing; Supporters say inmate didn’t shoot officer" by Greg Bluestein Associated Press / Septem...
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- posted by Inexplicata at Inexplicata-The Journal of Hispanic Ufology - 9 hours agoSource: Planeta UFO and “Ovnis, Un DesafÃo a la Ciencia” (Jul-Aug. 1974) Author: Dr. Oscar A. Galindez Argentina: The Anthropomorphic Phenomena of Santa Isabel By Dr. Oscar A. Galindez Date: 09-21...
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- posted by *C* at The Web (Untangled) - 9 hours agoIf there was anything I learned from yesterday's tragedy it is that the death penalty MUST be abolished. As such, I have decided to be more active in that cause. In addition to taking the Amnesty Interna...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 9 hours ago
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 10 hours agoB-BBC contributor Graeme aka Hippiepooter writes; "As a regular listener to R5L Breakfast, where I took political refuge over a decade ago from the outrageous bias of R4’s TODAY, it stands out when Nicky ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoAn Orange County couple has been ordered to stop holding a Bible study in their home on the grounds that the meeting violates a city ordinance as a “church” and not as a private gathering. Homeowners Ch...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoWith both jobs and immigration likely topics of sharp debate at tonight's Republican debate here in Florida, a new report suggests that newly-arrived immigrants have filled a majority of new jobs created i...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoThat was no ordinary bling on the wrist of First Lady Michelle Obama at the DNC fundraiser in New York Tuesday night. Those fancy diamond cuffs were the creation of 23-year-old Katie Decker, whose namesake...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoAngered that his Taco Bell drive-thru order failed to include hot sauce, a Missouri man returned to the fast food restaurant and allegedly pulled a shotgun on an employee, who fled in fear from the takeout...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoWith no solution in sight for Europe and new fears of a global recession, investors dumped stocks and commodities and ran to the safety of U.S. Treasurys. reasury yields [cnbc explains] , as a result, sli...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoCall it the recession's lost generation. In record-setting numbers, young adults struggling to find work are shunning long-distance moves to live with Mom and Dad, delaying marriage and buying fewer homes...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA disease that is killing greenfinches and chaffinches in the UK has now spread to Europe, scientists report. A paper in the journal Ecohealth confirms that the disease has been found in Finland, Norway a...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoBarack Obama has told Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas he will veto his bid for UN membership, as he tried to persuade him to drop the plans. But Mahmoud Abbas vowed to press ahead during a meeting with...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoBritish authorities recently rescued 24 men that they said were kept as slaves – some for as long as 15 years. The men, from England and parts of Eastern Europe, are "all believed to be victims of slaver...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoOntario's Ministry of the Environment is logging hundreds of health complaints over the province's 900 wind turbines but has downplayed the problem, according to internal ministry documents obtained by CBC...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoThe Great Lakes have faced various threats for years, from industrial pollution to invasive species, but another challenge worries many researchers these days — the emerging chemical threat. It’s not just...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoThe most senior US military officer has accused Pakistan's spy agency of supporting the Haqqani group in last week's attack on the US Kabul embassy. "The Haqqani network... acts as a veritable arm of Pakis...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoAn amateur astronomer has recorded images of the out-of-control US satellite as it tumbles back to Earth. Theirry Legault, from Paris, captured the video as the satellite passed over northern France on 15...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoThree children have died and more than 50 others are seriously ill in Peru after eating a school meal contaminated with pesticide, officials say. The children were being fed by a government nutrition progr...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoGoogle's executive chairman has denied that the company fixes its search results to promote its own websites and services. Eric Schmidt told a congressional hearing in Washington: "May I simply say that I...
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- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoMoody's has declared the era of "too big to fail" over. In yet another blow to the financial sector, Moody's Investors Services announced the downgrade of Citigroup, Wells Fargo, and Bank of America -- th...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA series of attacks against police hit the Russian North Caucasus region of Dagestan on Thursday, killing several officers and injuring dozens more, authorities said. An unidentified person set off a bomb...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoThe death toll climbed to 10 in Japan as the remnants of former Typhoon Roke raced into the northern Pacific on Thursday, government officials said. Four people are missing, according to local government o...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoFive people were killed and 13 others were injured Thursday when a roadside bomb exploded near a passenger van in militant-plagued northwest Pakistan, officials told CNN. The blast occurred near a village...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoDark shadows were lifting themselves off the sidewalk, slowly stretching, shaking the slumber from their limbs. It was 6:15 a.m. in Niger's capital, Niamey, and I was setting off on a 12-hour drive, leavi...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA military site containing what appears to be radioactive material has been uncovered by revolutionary forces near the southern Libyan city of Sabha. The site, not far from Sabha in the Sahara desert, ha...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoGovernment security forces fired on protesters in Yemen's capital Thursday, killing at least three people and seriously injuring at least three others, medical sources in Sanaa said. A protester was kille...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoThe Federal Reserve announced "Operation Twist" Wednesday, a widely expected stimulus move reviving a policy from the 1960's. The policy involves selling $400 billion in short-term Treasuries in exchange ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoI have lived my entire adult life under Israeli military occupation. I snatch an approximation of freedom only when I travel and even then I know I am not truly free because my homeland remains controlled ...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 10 hours agoHi folks! Sorry for the delay in this but time pressures do intrude! Off you go.. Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
- posted by Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 10 hours agoFollow ups or "Fowl" ups? Ah, cute. Mother duck and ducklings. Fowls, following. Well it is follow ups today. Two that really should be checked out. I did a post a couple of days ago on Syria's 2nd tra...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA magnitude 4.0 earthquake has struck the Dominican Republic at a depth of 156.5 km (97.2 miles), the quake hit at 16:33:10 UTC Thursday 22nd September 2011. The epicenter was 6 km (4 miles) East of Higuey...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoIranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad stuck a familiarly anti-Western, incendiary tone in his speech to the UN general assembly Thursday, prompting several delegations to exit the room. As part of a long...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA military site containing what appears to be radioactive material has been uncovered by revolutionary forces near the southern Libyan city of Sabha. Military forces loyal to the country's National Tran...
- posted by Irene Klotz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 11 hours agoA newly discovered affliction has some doctors wondering if astronauts traveling to Mars could be blind by the time they got there.
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 11 hours agoIn June, this blog has informed about the looming trial against 6 Italian seismologists and one public official who were going to be charged with manslaughter. The trial started this week. They're c...
- posted by calgarygrit at CalgaryGrit - 11 hours agoFor those worried the Ontario election lacked a meaty ballot questions, comes the most exciting statistical controversy since the scrapping of the mandatory long form Census: There are 13 statistical gr...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoFamilies camped illegally at Dale Farm are still being paid thousands of pounds in housing benefits by the council that is in an ongoing legal battle to have them evicted. Basildon Council pays as much as...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 11 hours agoNot ready to turn the station over to far right psychopath Cindy Jacobs (see video above), Fox News seems to have been studiously avoiding the historic nature of this week's ending of Don't Ask Don't Tel...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoA U.S. decision not to sell Taiwan new F-16 fighter jets is being seen by many U.S. allies in Asia as a sign of China's growing clout. The pre-eminent military power in East Asia for a half-century, the U...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoPowerful Typhoon No. 15 has caused major floods in temporary housing units here, bringing disaster once more to this city still suffering from the effects of the March 11 earthquake and ensuing nuclear dis...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoA magnitude 3.8 earthquake has struck Central California at a depth of just 2.9 km (1.8 miles), the quake hit at 16:19:08 UTC Thursday 22nd September 2011. The epicenter was 18 km (11 miles) South of Darwi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoA magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck Myanmar at a depth of 137.6 km (85.5 miles), the quake hit at 14:17:34 UTC Thursday 22nd September 2011. The epicenter was 167 km (104 miles) Southeast of Imphal, Manip...
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- posted by Keith Peat at No Eco Twaddle- or other false policy (N.E.T) - 12 hours agoThe evidence against AGW and the gauntlet laid
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- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 12 hours ago[image: World energy-related carbon dioxide emissions by fuel, 1990-2035 in billion MT. EIA via gregor.us] By Gregor Macdonald September 20, 2011 There are many unfortunate outcomes to Peak Oil. One o...
- posted by Jesse Emspak at Discovery News - Top Stories - 12 hours agoA Russian tinkerer built a machine that makes cocktails from keyboard strokes.
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 13 hours ago[image: A BP gas station sign that has been hacked by activists, 27 July 2010. Peter Macdiarmid / Getty Images] By Margaret Cronin Fisk and Laurel Brubaker Calkins 20 September 2011 BP Plc (BP) said it...
- posted by jurassicpork at Welcome Back to Pottersville - 14 hours agoYou'd think that, with the Pope, a former President of the United States and ex Director of the FBI taking up your cause, enough serious doubt would've been raised to at least stay the execution last nigh...
- posted by All Seeing Eye at Biased BBC - 14 hours agoOn the Question Time panel tonight we have the increasingly senile Vince Cable, Priti Patel, Harriet Harman, Private Eye editor Ian Hislop and Justine Roberts from Mumsnet (married to Ian Katz, deputy edi...
- posted by Nic Halverson at Discovery News - Top Stories - 14 hours agoLaser headlights are more energy efficient and and brighter than standard LED headlights.
- posted by Jesse Emspak at Discovery News - Top Stories - 14 hours agoGiving robots a ridged "skin" like a human fingerprint could help them learn how to feel the shape of things.
- posted by Alyssa Danigelis at Discovery News - Top Stories - 14 hours agoBlurry images taken from the human brain reveal movie clips just watched by test subjects.
- posted by Christina Ortiz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 14 hours agoTrade an old space heater for this simplistic hot fan.
- posted by Christina Ortiz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 14 hours agoThis coffee maker accommodates even the most sophisticated barista.
- posted by BAL at WPB/NYC and Anything Else - 14 hours ago
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 15 hours agoCoastal protection study to continue without corps~Amy Wold Gulf of Mexico oil spill fine allocation gets bipartisan support in U.S. Senate committee Senator John Cornyn, still an asshole... ~Disenfranchi...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 15 hours agoThis week Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) released it's list of the 10 worst corrupt Members of Congress for 2011. New Hampshire only has two congressmen, corporate shills Fran...
- posted by Eric Niiler at Discovery News - Top Stories - 15 hours agoBy going vertical, wind farms may just get a new life.
- posted by Sarah Simpson at Discovery News - Top Stories - 15 hours agoMary Anning (1799–1847) is known in many circles as the greatest fossil hunter of all time; 200 years ago she introduced the world to her discovery of the bizarre ichthyosaur.
- posted by Sarah Simpson at Discovery News - Top Stories - 15 hours agoNASA's doomed satellite provided critical information on the development of the ozone hole.
- posted by Marianne English at Discovery News - Top Stories - 15 hours agoThe autistic-like behaviors of the animal add to a growing list of similarities between humans and their recent primate ancestors.
- posted by Gail at Wit's End - 16 hours agoAnyone who isn't entranced into a stupor by the Bread and Circus so ingeniously engineered by the corporatocracy must at least suspect that mainstream media - the newspapers, magazines and teevee - are *no...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoA magnitude 4.0 earthquake has struck Eastern Turkey at a depth of just 2 km (1.2 miles), the quake hit at 10:14:00 UTC Thursday 22nd September 2011. The epicenter was 25 km (15.5 miles) Northeast of Ilic, ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoRevolutionaries have taken control of the southwestern town of Ubari, chasing Moammar Gadhafi loyalists from the area as Libya's new leaders continued to gain momentum, National Transitional Council fiel...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 16 hours ago*US plan to attack Britain and its empire.* Documents found in the US National Archives reveal that: The USA devised plans to attack Britain, and, other rivals. How America planned to destroy BRITAIN. A...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 17 hours ago[image: claim injustice] Strapped to a gurney in Georgia's death chamber, Troy Davis lifted his head and confirmed one last time that he did not kill police officer Mark MacPhail just a few feet away afte...
- posted by sue at Biased BBC - 17 hours agoThe BBC has a dilemma. Their beloved Obama has made a difficult speech. “There is no Shortcut to Peace” "Let’s be honest: Israel is surrounded by neighbors that have waged repeated wars against it. Israel...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoA magnitude 5.3 earthquake has struck Southern Sumatra, Indonesia at a depth of 101.9 km (63.3 miles), the quake hit at 10:20:31 UTC Thursday 22nd September 2011. The epicenter was 92 km (57 miles) ESE of ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoA magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck offshore El Salvadore at a depth of 90.2 km (56.1 miles), the quake hit at 10:13:38 UTC Thursday 22nd September 2011. The epicenter was 44 km (28 miles) SSW of Usuluta...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoThe UK's top shares and other leading global stock markets have plummeted following the U.S.'s announcement of a £250billion rescue operation to prop up its feeble economy. The FTSE 100 was 4 per cent low...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 18 hours ago*Only 20,000 or so watched for more than a minute* Al Gore has claimed that the Climate Reality Project received 8.6 million visits on Climate Parody Day between September 14th and September 15th. That's ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (Sue Marsh) at Broken of Britain - 18 hours ago
- posted by Pippa at Pippa's Place - Environmentally Speaking - 19 hours agoPhoto courtesy: Simone Ramella / cc While the sight of a hazy, smog filled cloud looming over the cityscape is certainly enough to break the heart of any would-be outdoorsman, it turns out that breathing ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoA satellite whose orbit is degrading is likely to crash back to Earth on Friday, and 26 pieces have a good chance of surviving the heat of re-entry, NASA said. Despite being pretty sure that the Upper At...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 19 hours ago[image: Episode image for Eliza Manningham-Buller: Freedom] Biased BBC contributor Alan makes the following points. "The BBC reports that the chairman of the Afghan High Peace Council, Burhanuddin Rabbani,...
- posted by Jason Major at Discovery News - Top Stories - 19 hours agoSaturn's moon Enceladus has turned out to be quite the overachiever among moons in our solar system -- it pours rain onto Saturn.
- posted by Tim Wall at Discovery News - Top Stories - 19 hours agoArgan oil gave Moroccan families a boost in wealth, but the goats bought with the extra income are now eating the Argan trees.
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 20 hours agoThere is a side to modern Britain that the BBC is very careful NOT to explore. Every now and again we get a glimpse of what lurks in the post-modern shadows, as the mobs rampaging through several of our ma...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 20 hours agoIt's never a *good morning* on the BBC Today programme if there is not a little further demonising of Rupert Murdoch so cue this little knockaboutbetween Humphyrs and Harold Evans. As you can guess, Humphyr...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoIt is mostly legal, but harvesting a shark's fins is a gruesome business. Fishermen often cut off the fins while still at sea and throw the sharks back into the water, where they bleed to death. The fins...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoWho stuffed a large quantity of dead Canada geese into a pair of giant garbage bags? Why did they do it? And why were these dead birds left to rot in an area near a local playground? These are but a few o...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoA LARGE shark, resembling the one seen yesterday, was spotted next to the Busselton Jetty this afternoon. Estimates of both sightings have the shark as at least 4m long and speculation that it is a White ...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 20 hours ago*Cardiff, in the UK by **Maciej Dakowicz* *Mitsubishi MISSILE factories Hit with a Cyber Attack.* *Keywords: cointelpro john friend mr friends blog - Boys, he ain't worth the money you're paying him!** * ...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 20 hours agoOne of the many benefits of the BBC is that it helps educate us lesser mortals. For example, did you know that *many Muslims do not understand Sharia?* Here is the helpful BBC article concerned and a littl...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 20 hours agoThe 8.10am item on BBC Radi 4 Today is a wonderful example of the BBC doing *everything possible* to defend the previous Labour government's many follies - in this case the poorly negotiated PFI schemes th...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoA SUDDEN burst of freak weather caused chaos around Scotland yesterday when strong winds and torrential rain battered the country. A car was left stranded under a bridge in a flash flood in Glasgow and ped...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoFLOODS and rain-related disasters have left 115 people dead and 36 missing in nine of -China's provincial-level regions up to yesterday, according to the National Disaster Reduction Commission. The highe...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoThree children have died and more than 50 others are seriously ill in Peru after eating a school meal contaminated with pesticide, officials say. The children were being fed by a government nutrition prog...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoA new lava flow is advancing down the east slope of Puu Oo crater and may pose a threat to the Royal Gardens subdivision if it continues, the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory said. Lava began overflowing the...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoChina warned the United States Thursday that a multi-billion dollar arms sales to Taiwan will create "severe obstacles" between Beijing and Washington, the state-run Xinhua news agency reported. "The wro...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoThe death toll climbed to 10 in Japan as the remnants of former Typhoon Roke raced into the northern Pacific on Thursday, government officials said. Four people are missing, according to local government ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoThis is the chilling video which shows a brazen gunman striding the corridors of an Arkansas courtroom on the hunt for a judge he believed wronged him during his divorce case. Workers at Crawford County C...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoThey are supposed to be working out ways to solve the world's biggest problems. But diplomats attending the United Nations General Assembly have so far spent more time pampering and preening themselves at...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoNato's decision-making body has granted approval for the mission in Libya to continue for another 90 days. The North Atlantic Council, composed of representatives from Nato's 28 countries, approved the ex...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoBarack Obama triggered fury among Palestinians tonight just hours after he pushed them to withdraw their United Nations independence bid. Nabeel Shaath, a senior adviser to Palestinian President Mahmoud Ab...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoVanished: Rebecca Coriam disappeared from a cruise ship earlier this year. On the evening of April 6 this year, John Halford packed his suitcase and left it outside the door of his cabin on the cruise line...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoA magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 45.5 km (28.3 miles), the quake hit at 05:46:29 UTC Thursday 22nd September 2011. The epicenter was 41 km (25 miles)...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoA magnitude 3.2 earthquake has struck El Hierro, Canary Islands at a depth of 14 km (8.6 miles), the quake hit at 05:06:31 UTC Thursday 22nd September 2011. The epicenter was 85 km (52.8 miles) Southwest o...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoMoments before his execution Troy Davis told the family of slain policeman Mark MacPhail, 'I'm innocent. I didn't kill your son.' Strapped to a gurney, awaiting lethal injection, Davis lifted his head and ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoMinisters are to axe Labour’s disastrous £12billion NHS computer scheme. The Coalition will today announce it is putting a halt to years of scandalous waste of taxpayers’ money on a system that never worke...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoA magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck the South Sandwich Islands Region at a depth of 53.8 km (33.4 miles), the quake hit at 04:43:05 UTC Thursday 22nd September 2011. The epicenter was 141 km (87 miles) N...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoA magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck Luzon, Philippines at a depth of 52.7 km (32.7 miles), the quake hit at 03:49:20 UTC Thursday 22nd September 2011. The epicenter was 63 km (39 miles) Northwest of Olong...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoA magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck the Izu Islands, Japan Region at a depth of 126km (78.3 miles), the quake hit at 23:43:10 UTC Wednesday 21st September 2011. The epicenter was 71 km (44 miles) North o...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoA magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck the Samoa Islands Region at a depth of 34.8 km (21.6 miles), the quake hit at 23:10:46 UTC Wednesday 21st September 2011. The epicenter was 149 km (92 miles) Southeast...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoA magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck Taiwan at a depth of 17.9 km (11.1 miles), the quake hit at 22:18:32 UTC Wednesday 21st September 2011. The epicenter was 12 km (7 miles) ENE of Hualien, Taiwan No repo...
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- posted by thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 23 hours agoHuey P. Meaux was the Crazy CajunBy Ivan Koop Kuper / The Rag Blog / September 22, 2011One Friday evening in 1973, a burly looking biker entered the control room of community radio station KPFT FM, the Pacif...
- posted by thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 23 hours agoCartoon from The New Yorker.Shredding the envelope:Healthcare on the ground - Part III:The anti-angel forcesBy Sarito Carol Neiman / The Rag Blog / September 22, 2011[Shredding the Envelope ("Ruminations on ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoA cage fighting event which included children as young as eight has created a storm of controversy. Footage of the bouts posted on the Internet have provoked an outcry with the *British Cage Fighting Ass...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoA magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck the Tonga Region at a depth of 36.4 km (22.6 miles), the quake hit at 00:49:59 UTC Thursday 22nd September 2011. The epicenter was 218 km (135 miles) Southeast of Hihif...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 1 day agoMedia Roots: MEDIA ROOTS- Project Censored spoke about corporate media censorship, managed news and the media blackout surrounding 9/11 at Oakland's anniversary film festival on September 8, 2011. Watch t...
- posted by Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 1 day agoLiberal confab sponsored by corporate fascists, big oil, big banks. by Tony Cartalucci The Clinton Global Citizen Awards, held this week in New York City, claims to "recognize extraordinary individuals wh...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 1 day ago
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago*A quartet of foreign devils manifestly aching to be plundered* *"Certain obscure indications tended to establish them as an American family. In typically Yankee matriarchal style, the party was headed by ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 5.5 earthquake has struck Eastern Turkey at a depth of just 4.4 km (2.7 miles), the quake hit at 03:22:36 UTC Thursday 22nd September 2011. The epicenter was 71 km (44 miles) West of Erzincan, T...
- posted by Orwell's Bastard at Orwell's Bastard - 1 day agoSo it appears that Mayor Stupid and Brother Dumbfuck underestimated the backlash they'd triggered by fucking around into the waterfront. A big tip of the chapeau to the folks behind CodeBlueTO, and everyon...
- posted by Gail at Wit's End - 1 day agoI came across this deliberately alarming teevee news report about the under appreciated imminence of earthquakes around various locations in America. Well, the powers that be want us to worry about things...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago*A view of the New York Stock Exchange from the steps of Federal Hall under "normal" post-9/11 security conditions,* *except with abnormally few people: You see where all those people are walking, on Wall ...
- posted by Lord Stirling at Europe - 1 day agoHoly Shroud of Turin Powerful prayer to St. Michael the Archangel - video ~ link AVE MARIA - by Helene Fischer - video ~ link AVE MARIA by Mirusia Louwerse - video ~ link Lord Stirling's news blog ...
- posted by Irene Klotz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoThe chance of spotting flaming wreckage from NASA’s doomed Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (UARS) on Friday is pretty remote, but at least you can track its progress.
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 1 day agoThe US Border Patrol receives "A Culture of Cruelty" report from an oversight committee of professionals in Tucson today. Photo copyright Michael Hyatt. Photo copyright Michael HyattOversight committee of pr...
- posted by CoyotePrime@gmail.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day agoI'm taking a time out offline, real life circumstances, and will be back when possible. Meanwhile, there are 16,064 posts here for your perusal. Commenting is turned off to deter those pesky live link spa...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe government is calculating the cost of Scotland splitting from Britain to reinforce its case against nationalist demands for independence, a cabinet minister said on Monday. Ministers in every governme...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoSyria's security forces opened fire on Monday during a ackdown on opposition activists in the town of Houla in central Homs province, activists said. "Five residents, including a woman, were shot dead on M...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA century ago, phrenologists would measure people’s heads in a quest to explain differences in their social position, and healthy, well-behaved families would be sent to ‘eugenics camps’ to breed more of t...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoInmates staged near simultaneous jailbreaks from three prisons in the Mexican state of Veracruz early Monday and at least 32 of them escaped, officials said. Authorities said 14 of the fugitives were late...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoArmed men from Congo burst into a pub in the central African nation of Burundi and killed 36 people, an official said Monday. One wounded man said an attacker yelled, “Make sure there’s no survivors.” Bur...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoHong Kong police have made their biggest ever cocaine bust, seizing more than 1,200 pounds (560 kilograms) of the drug and arresting eight people. Police say the five men and three women arrested included ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe Bureau of Land Management says a fossil found by employees on federal land represents the earliest record of living beavers in North America. The pair of teeth was found on BLM land in northeast Oregon...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoAccording to an organization that tracks UFO reports, this summer has been an especially busy period for UFO sightings. The Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) noted that sightings increased over the past six weeks...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoWhat if one of the largest volcanic eruptions in recent history happened today? A new study suggests that a blast akin to one that devastated Iceland in the 1780s would waft noxious gases southwestward and...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoFor Bill Green it was more than just a routine visit to his Dongguan factory. The thuds, bangs and sparks of the factory floor were the same; the metal cut, twisted and welded in the usual shower of spark...
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- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoToday, one does not need to blow up buildings, take hostages in political motivation, send anthrax through the mail, or even wave a gun around in a public place to be considered a terrorist threat. A new ...
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- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoCharlotte Bevins' long blond hair blows in the wind as she stands amid protesters, her eyes red and puffy from crying. Just four months ago, Bevins' brother, Charles, lost his life in a drilling accident ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoIt's the same old story: At first, politicians deny the seriousness of the situation. Then, costs for the disbursement of government bonds rise immensely. A few austerity packages are launched. Then the co...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA programme delivering food aid to 13 million poverty-hit Europeans was left in limbo Tuesday due to opposition from six austerity-driven EU nations, Polish Agriculture Minister Marek Sawicki said. Farm m...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoPowerful bomb exploded in the centre of the Turkish capital Ankara on Tuesday, wounding up to 15 people, senior government officials said. "There are no dead. Fifteen people were injured," Deputy Prime Min...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe Punjab government seems helpless to control dengue virus which claimed lives of nine more people in the provincial capital on Tuesday, the highest number of deaths reported in a day since the disease h...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoWhen it was built in 1936, the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge was a Depression-era project that put scores of Americans to work. When its $6.3 billion replacement opens in two years, it will be an intern...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoAmerica’s nuclear bombers are supposed to be ready to go in a hurry. They’re subject to the strictest rules for loading and prepping aircraft with the world’s most dangerous weapons. So how did inspectors ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoAn Italian couple have sought legal help to persuade their 41-year-old son to fly the nest, Italian media reported. The Venetian parents, who have not been named, say their son has a job but refuses to le...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoAn insurance firm is suing Saudi Arabia in a U.S. court over claims that the country funded the terrorists responsible for the 9/11 attacks. A division of Lloyds of London is demanding the return of $215mi...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoFour migrant workers were mown down on a pedestrian crossing close to Moscow by a motorcade reportedly carrying a top banker, the head of a road safety campaign group told AFP on Wednesday. Two cars, a Me...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoNATO agreed on Wednesday to a three-month extension of its air and sea campaign in Libya as the country's new rulers try to dislodge well-armed Gaddafi loyalists holding out in several towns. The agreemen...
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- posted by PC at Not PC - 1 day ago[image: ep] Here’s a new re-issue of a recent book, an important bo0k, an essential book—this expanded second edition of which offers even more philosophical self-defence than the first. Allow me to jus...
- posted by BAL at WPB/NYC and Anything Else - 1 day ago
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- posted by Suzan at Welcome to Pottersville 2 (Blogging Against Fascism!) - 1 day agoYou've undoubtedly got your own ideas about how inadequate the latest (perhaps the only?) Obama Tax-the-Rich scheme is, and I've certainly got mine. The Rude Pundit has nutshelled it: So let's be sure we'...
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- posted by thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 1 day agoImage from The Last Crisis.A threat to American liberties:Dominionists and the 'Kingdom of God'They want to take over government and create a theocracy. No wonder they see nothing wrong in playing politics f...
- posted by PC at Not PC - 1 day agoHow small-minded are New Zealanders? At a time when the world is collapsing in an orgy of European and American debt, our second-largest city lies in ruins and the Rugby World Cup has arrived on our sho...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe government is pouring effort into bringing the temperature at Unit 2 of the Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Power Plant under 100 degrees Celsius to prevent the release of radioactive materials through steam, ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe government is calling for the Nara and Wakayama prefectural governments and local bodies to take precautions following signs that two landslide dams in the prefectures created by Typhoon No. 12 may hav...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoAchieving a "cold shutdown" of a nuclear reactor is not difficult as long as the reactor is not broken. A cold shutdown is defined by experts as a situation in which nuclear reactors whose operations are s...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 1 day agoSorry for lack of posts, but not been well for the past few days. BBC coverage of the* Lib-Dem Conference *has not helped my mood. You can tell just how much the BBC are lapping up the tribal trash being s...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day agoI always looked forward to my work. But I always had pretty good jobs. Roland's best friend from childhood is among the long-term unemployed. He always worked in manufacturing jobs-- jobs that have now, i...
- posted by thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 1 day agoSeal of the Republic of Texas, 1839. Image from Wikimedia Commons.The hidden history of TexasPart 4: The independent Republic of Texas, 1836-1845By Bob Feldman / The Rag Blog / September 21, 2011[This is Par...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck Sumbawa Region, Indonesia at a depth of 44.6 km (27.7 miles), the quake hit at 19:52:30 UTC Wednesday 21st September 2011. The epicenter was 171 km (106 miles) Southwe...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 1 day agoA few months ago, physicist and climate skeptic Prof William Happer of Princeton wrote this article: The Truth About Greenhouse Gases: The dubious science of the climate crusaders for First Things. An ...
- posted by derekshowerman at Contaminated Nation - Water Contamination, Land Pollution & Hazardous Waste locations - 1 day agoMany people in Texas are upset about thenew Cross-State Air Pollution Rule that is scheduled to take effect in 2012.According to the EPA's FAQs on the rule it is gradually replacing the Clean AirInterstat...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoNasa scientists are working round the clock to tell us where and when a six-ton satellite will land this week - but the only thing that's certain is that pieces of it will hit the surface of the planet. ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe cold war between North and South Korea has heated up once again - with South Korea launching a radar spy plane dubbed 'Peace Eye', which is also capable of acting as an airborne command and control cen...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoIf this cute little chap looks a wee bit confused, it's no wonder. His big wide eyes stare out at the world around him - which in turn is staring back at him. Because nobody has seen a creature quite like...
- posted by Lorene (just Lu) at Housewife Eclectic - 1 day agotypography canvas by tenderbeasts on etsy *See my previous favorite things... thing #1 - dafont | thing #2 - firegestures | thing #3 - babycenter | thing #4 - allrecipes | thing #5 - w3schools* I am in t...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 1 day agoProtesting abuse at Border Patrol headquarters Sept. 21, 2001/Photo Brenda Norrell*BORDER PATROL: A Culture of Cruelty* By Brenda Norrell Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com TUCSON -- The Tucson...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThis amazing picture shows for the first time the colourful jets deep inside one of the most mysterious elements in the galaxy, the black hole. Showing the innermost parts of a black hole’s active jets, th...
- A future for drones: Automated killingThe Coming Crisis - 1 day ago<img style="width: 500px; height: 305px;" src="data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAdQAAAEeCAYAAAAzVOS+AAADHmlDQ1BJQ0MgUHJvZmlsZQAAeAGFVN9r01AU/tplnbDhizpnEQk+aJFuZFN0Q5y2a1e6zVrqNrchSJumbVyaxiTtf...
- posted by Tracy Staedter at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoA custom-made watercraft inspired by a Orca is a sub and speedboat in one.
- posted by Marianne English at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoThere's no evidence linking the vaccine -- or any other vaccine -- to mental retardation. Learn about the vaccine.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA leading FBI analyst who gave a lecture last year criticising mainstream Muslims has been caught on camera giving a second presentation urging agents to 'forget Al Qaeda' and 'go after the Death Star' of ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoScientists believe our solar system may have once had a fifth gas planet that was ejected from the solar system and 'orphaned'. A new study by David Nesvorny, from the Southwest Research Institute in Colo...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day ago[image: Merchants of Doubt, by Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway]By Anna Haynes 19 September 2011 See Tamino's post for the excellent (34 min) interview & a discussion thereof. Here are my notes from wa...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day ago[image: Output growth for six developed nations: Japan, U.S., France, Germany, Italy, and U.K, 2003-2011. After a rapid post-crisis recovery, the world economy is slowing down from around 4 per cent GDP ...
- posted by thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 1 day agoImage from Free Health Care News.As I approach my 90th year:I despair for the state of my country(and its corrupted health care system)I look at the Republican 'debates' and wonder, where did we -- as a sup...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA super important question. This happened before Christchurch. This happened before Japan. Is it happening again? (From our fantastic friend John at PatrioticTruther on Youtube).
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoLocal, state and federal authorities are investigating the detonation of a possible car bomb that hospitalized three people Tuesday evening. The incident happened about 5:40 p.m. at East Elm and Intersta...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe counterinsurgency tactic that is sending U.S. soldiers out on foot patrols among the Afghan people, rather than riding in armored vehicles, has contributed to a dramatic increase in arm and leg amputat...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoAll it took to give nearly two dozen labor leaders from Chicago a windfall worth millions was a few tweaks to a handful of sentences in the state's lengthy pension code. The changes became law with no pub...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoIs it possible to hide weapons in your hair? The Transportation Security Administration thinks so. Dallas resident Isis Brantley said she was stopped on Monday at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoAnother TSA agent has been arrested and accused of rape. Clifton Lyles, who worked at the Nashville International Airport, was arrested earlier this week in Rutherford County, Tennessee, and charged with ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoChildren as young as eight have been filmed "cage fighting" in footage medical experts have called "disturbing". The video of the bout, which lasted 10 minutes and featured a scantily clad ring girl par...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day ago[image: Beach goers stare at at pools of oil which washed up on the beach in Gulf Shores Friday, June 4, 2010 just west of the Alabama Gulf State Park Pier. Bill Starling / Press-Register] By Bill Cato,...
- posted by Gail at Wit's End - 1 day agoI just got a call from Mariel's mom, she is free. She was deprived of her medication almost the entire time she was in police custody, and they had to return to the First Precinct to retrieve it, so "...s...
- posted by Emily Sohn at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoPeople who visit the nation's national parks burn more calories than those that don't.
- posted by Robin Horbury at Biased BBC - 1 day agoPut out the bunting and crack open the champagne. It's still early days, but Cuadrilla Resources, a small but highly enterprising UK company that is surveying for shale gas, has announced that it has foun...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoAt least six people are dead or missing and more than a million evacuated from cities in Japan as a typhoon strikes the country. The category 2 tropical storm, known as *Roke*, is expected to head toward ...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 1 day agoSerial child-killer Clifford Olson is dying. That sick, twisted monster is said to be dying of cancer and to be just days from breathing his last.
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 1 day agoBarack Obama showed what he was made of today - not very much at all. In a flaccid speech that appeared to convince no one, Obama said that recognition of Palestinian statehood was premature and the UN ins...
- posted by LuboÅ¡ Motl at The Reference Frame - 1 day agoThe iPhone 5 will be out on October 4st, introduced by Tim Cook. I wish Steve Jobs that his company won't collapse without him – but it won't forget about him, either. iPhone 5 will run iOS 5 (which allow...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day agoYou know the old adage almost universally-- if incorrectly-- attributed to Soviet totalitarian Josef Stalin: "It's not the people who vote that count. It's the people who count the votes." Though he neve...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoFour more cases of saline poisoning have been identified at Stepping Hill hospital. Police said the affected patients all survived despite coming into contact with the contaminated fluid. Detectives ha...
- posted by Christina Ortiz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoPossibly the only time the words "ring" and "sound" come together in a positive way.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 5.2 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 51.4 km (31.9 miles), the quake hit at 13:31:03 UTC Wednesday 21st September 2011. The epicenter was 45 km (27 miles...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day ago[image: Baby Tasmanian devil. via gs.riverdale.k12.or.us] September 21, 2011 (AAP) – A strip of dense bushland has been fenced off in a corner of NSW to create a safe haven for Tasmanian devils and rescu...
- posted by Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 1 day ago"When we come back here next year, we can have an agreement that will lead to a new member of the United Nations — an independent sovereign state of Palestine, living in peace with Israel," President Bar...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 1 day agoBy Brenda Norrell Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com Navajo President Ben Shelly spoke today, Sept. 21, in Geneva at the UN Human Rights Council, urging a halt to the use of wastewater on s...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 1 day ago*UN Human Rights Council, Geneva* James Anaya Final Remarks, Clustered ID on Indigenous Peoples, 19th Plenary Meeting21 September 2011 Mr. James Anaya, Special Rapporteur On The Rights Of Indigenous Peo...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 1 day agoFinal Remarks Littlechild, Remarks, Clustered ID on Indigenous Peoples, 19th Plenary Meeting 21 September 2011 *Mr. Littlechild, Member of the Expert Mechanism on the rights of indigenous peoples at t...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 1 day agoA couple of nights ago on one of the our right wing TV stations that I get (I only get right wing news on Charter Basic Cable) - they had a guy on that pontificated about Minnesota's stupid Voter ID Act - ...
- posted by Tim Wall at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoPeta.xxx will be a full-nudity site featuring women using their bodies to advocate for animals.
- posted by Jesse Emspak at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoPulling hydrogen out of water can be done with bacteria, wastewater and seawater.
- posted by Nic Halverson at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoThe emergency shelter fits two adults and one child and is lit by solar-powered LED lights.
- posted by Christina Ortiz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoThese earplugs block out loud noises, while enhancing ambient sound -- just don't swim with them.
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- posted by Gail at Wit's End - 1 day agoA 17 year old New Jersey Bergen Community College student, Mariel Moshiri, was arrested in Zuccotti Park yesterday at the ongoing Occupy Wall Street protest in Manhattan. Her mother, Nicole Busch, has bee...
- posted by Anonops at AnonOps Communications - 1 day agoIf 2,000 Tea Party activists descended on Wall Street, you would probably have an equal number of reporters there covering them. Yet 2,000 people did occupy Wall Street last Saturday. They weren't carryin...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThis is the terrifying moment a passenger boat capsized after it clashed with a restaurant boat during a rescue operation on the flooded Jialing River in southwest China's Chongqing municipality. As torre...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoCaravans from the Dale Farm travellers' site have upped sticks and set up an illegal camp 55 miles away leading residents to fear that many more are on their way. Around 20 families have moved from Essex ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoSeveral people have reportedly been killed by government troops as thousands of mourners gathered for a mass funeral in Yemen's capital Sanaa. Conflicting reports suggest up to five people may have been f...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoEurope's debt crisis has increased the risk exposure of banks in the region by 300 billion euros ($410 billion) and they need to recapitalize to ensure they can weather potential losses, the International ...
- posted by Matt at An Open Book - 1 day agoSecond guesses Second glances Fleeting, cheapened Fake romances This is lust This is us Lust is such a touchy subject. Mostly because we're all forced to suffer through this war in silence. The reality is:...
- posted by Christina Ortiz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoAvoid the dreaded VKB (visible key bulge) with this key slider.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoMale squid are just as likely to mate with other males as with females, deep-sea observations reveal.
- posted by Emily Sohn at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoBPA showed up in samples of canned food products marketed to children.
- posted by Scott Tharler at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoIridium's AxcessPoint technology will get you and your smart phone, tablet and/or laptop online from anywhere in the world.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoAn outbreak of polio has been confirmed in China for the first time since 1999, leaving one person dead and hospitalizing another nine, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). The disease, a co...
- Andrew Lindo the Suitcase Killer is Jailed for Life for the murder of Marie Stewart - 21st Sept 2011
posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA music teacher who murdered his fiancee and put her body in a suitcase in his garage has been jailed for life - with a minimum term of 22 years. Andrew Lindo, 29, strangled, battered and stabbed Marie St... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThirty-four middle school students fell ill after eating at their school canteen on Tuesday in southwest China's Guizhou Province, school authorities said Wednesday. The students, aged 13 to 15, experienc...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoAP: Indonesian police say a wooden boat carrying dozens of Balinese musicians has sunk in high waves, killing 11 people. Rescuers are scouring the waters for 14 others still missing, including the captai...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoFloods caused by torrential rain brought havoc in Esa Khel Tehsil, damaging around 300 houses, infrastructure and sweeping away standing crops. According to local people, torrential rain followed by flash ...
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 1 day agoBearly a contest~moosedenied ~Well, I guess that'll just have to do. Oh I bet you thought I'd be over the moon with that righteous beatdown the Saints put on the asshole Bears Sunday afternoon. Well, you'd...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day agoSorry Beltway Democratic Party careerists, but Blue America worked hard last year to help rid *our* party of corporate, anti-family slugs in the congressional Blue Dog Caucus. (Help us eliminate more of t...
- posted by Alison at Creekside - 1 day agoA week ago US Attorney General Eric Holder told the Northern Border Summit : "[T]here are areas in which the U.S. and Canada can enhance cooperation in criminal investigations and prosecutions. And I belie...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoTechnically, Mammoth Mountain is not an active volcano. *According to the Smithsonian’s Global Volcanism Program, “active” is a description reserved for volcanoes that have erupted in the last 10,000 years...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoTwo American hikers jailed on spying charges in Iran have been released after a $1m bail deal was approved by the courts. Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal had spent more than two years in custody, having been...
- posted by Benjamin Radford at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoActresses from several British soap operas are appearing nude to protest age discrimination in TV roles.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago*Update at 7:47 a.m. ET:* CNN reports that the pair have been released from prison, quoting an unnamed U.S. official. *Update at 7:39 a.m. ET: *Iranian state reports that the Judiciary of the Islamic Repu...
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